Issuance - AVP role

Job Title-Assitant Vice President - Issuance

Role Description

Treasury Debt Issuance is responsible for all term of issuance activities in all markets, currencies and investor groups and aims to raise external funding through dealing and execution in DB issued notes, at the lowest possible cost while ensuring funding sources remain diversified.

The Trade and Transaction Operator in Issuance Operations supports the processing of all products issued by the Debt Issuance Desks in Frankfurt, London, New York and APAC region and any event during the life-cycle of a product such as coupon payments, call events or buybacks.

The Trade and Transaction Operator is accountable to ensure timely and accurate processing of data in the various downstream systems to allow execution of settlement and payments and to effect regulatory reporting of cross-border payments. She/he is also responsible to perform relevant reconciliations, to investigate and to resolve cash breaks.

In addition, the Trade and Transaction Operator is involved in the coordination of new issuances or life-cycle activities and related queries across the various teams in the F2B process. The role owner participates in change initiatives to improve the operational landscape and provides subject matter expertise in mandatory or discretionary projects.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy
• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities
• Manage a multi locational regional team. Team size will be approximately 5 employees at AVP level and below and represent a sizable global footprint for processes performed.
• Accountable for effective organizational design that enhances process stability thru high quality job content and proper supervision.
• Set priorities, goals and team objectives that advance global priorities and incorporates regional opportunities for process optimization and team development. Ensure daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly team habits and expectations are aligned with priorities set.
• Drives an effective people agenda, in collaboration with peers. Consistent and transparent in approach. Engagement across all corporate titles to ensure effective two way flow of communication.
• Create a culture of superior service to internal and external stakeholders, in particular client and front office facing functions. Imbibe in the team the importance of timely and accurate communication in a manner that is appropriate for that particular audience.
• Sets the standards for a strong operating control environment that is constantly evolving and proactive in identifying trends/weaknesses before an error or loss is incurred. Key messages are reinforced at regular intervals to keep protecting the Bank and our clients at the forefront of the team’s daily processes. Escalation is encouraged and met with management support to ensure the issue impact is fully understand and quickly resolved.
• Accountable for process design to ensure procedures performed by team are efficient, controlled, regulatory compliant and risk of error is minimized. Advocate for innovation as well as process automation.
• Supervision of daily business processes, complete with adherence to standard tools and minimum requirements (eg. Daily team huddles, end of day dashboards, daily supervisory checklists). Ensures performance visualization via metrics /KPI’s to evidence quality of team’s performance and to meet internal or external governance requirements.
• Senior point of contact for Global Operations and Front Office management for day to day production elements as well as strategic initiatives.
• Regional contact for internal or external audit, risk & control and regulatory reviews. Proactively engaged in the management of these review to ensure information is properly understood by the independent reviewer and report findings are limited to appropriate and value added items.